40 ROAD, TRACK, AND STABLE. 



It is an interesting fact that the Hambletonians, 

 the Mambrino Chiefs, and the Clays all have a hall- 

 mark, so to say, of their own, not found of course in 

 every individual belonging to their blood, but still 

 extremely common. In the Hambletonian family this 

 is a white hind foot, mottled with black; in the 

 Mambrino Chief family, especially in the Mambrino 

 Patchen branch, it is one hind leg gray from foot to 

 hock ; in the Clays, it is a few gray hairs at the root 

 of the tail. 



Having now indicated in a general Avay three of 

 the main sources of trotting speed, — namely, the 

 Messenger strain as exhibited especially in the Ham- 

 bletonian and Mambrino Chief families, the Bell- 

 founder or Norfolk Trotter strain as represented in 

 the Hambletonian family, and the Grand Bashaw or 

 Barb strain preserved in the Clays, — I come to the 

 fourth main source of trotting speed, namely, the 

 Morgans, a New England breed. 



In the troubled year 1788, one Colonel De Lancey, 

 a King's officer, and a patron of horse racing, was in 

 command of a regiment stationed at a point on Long 

 Island connected with the mainland by a long bridge. 

 As his private charger, the Colonel had a very hand- 

 some bay stallion, a thoroughbred, called True Briton, 1 

 and afterward Beautiful Bay. 



Cassius M. Clay out of a well-bred but untraced mare. Cassias M. 

 Clay sired Clay Pilot out of a mare by Pacing Pilot (a Canadian 

 horse of unknown pedigree), second dam by Gray Eagle, an in- 

 bred Diomed. Clay Pilot sired The Moor out of Belle of Wabash, 

 a very blood-like animal, a thoroughbred, or nearly thoroughbred, 

 granddaughter of imported Fylde. 



1 True Briton was by Lloyd's Traveller, by Imported Traveller. 

 Imported (or Moretou's) Traveller was bred by Mr. Crofts. He 



